Voice application development for Android / Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McTear, Michael.

Contributor:

Callejas Carrion, Zoraida, 1982-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Android (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Mobile computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will give beginners an introduction to building voice-based applications on Android. It will begin by covering the basic concepts and will build up to creating a voice-based personal assistant. By the end of this book, you should be in a position to create your own voice-based applications on Android from scratch in next to no time.Voice Application Development for Android is for all those who are interested in speech technology and for those who, as owners of Android devices, are keen to experiment with developing voice apps for their devices. It will also be useful as a starting po

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""Foreword""; ""About the Authors""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Speech on Android Devices""; ""Using speech on an Android device""; ""Speech-to-text""; ""Text-to-speech""; ""Voice Search""; ""Android Voice Actions""; ""Virtual Personal Assistants""; ""Designing and developing a speech app""; ""Why Google speech?""; ""What is needed to create a Virtual Personal Assistant?""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Text-to-Speech Synthesis""

""Introducing text-to-speech synthesis""""The technology of text-to-speech synthesis""; ""Using pre-recorded speech instead of TTS""; ""Using Google text-to-speech synthesis""; ""Starting the TTS engine""; ""Developing applications with Google TTS""; ""TTSWithLib app: Reading user input""; ""TTSReadFile app: Reading a file out loud""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Speech Recognition""; ""The technology of speech recognition""; ""Using Google speech recognition""; ""Developing applications with the Google speech recognition API""; ""ASRWithIntent app""; ""ASRWithLib app""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 4: Simple Voice Interactions""""Voice interactions""; ""VoiceSearch app""; ""VoiceLaunch app""; ""VoiceSearchConfirmation app""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: Form-filling dialogs""; ""Form-filling dialogs""; ""Implementing form-filling dialogs""; ""Threading""; ""XMLLib""; ""FormFillLib""; ""VXMLParser""; ""DialogInterpreter""; ""MusicBrain app""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Grammars for Dialog""; ""Grammars for speech recognition and natural language understanding""; ""NLU with hand-crafted grammars""; ""Statistical NLU""; ""NLULib""; ""Processing XML grammars""

""Processing statistical grammars""""The GrammarTest app""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7: Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogs""; ""Multilinguality""; ""Multimodality""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8: Dialogs with Virtual Personal Assistants""; ""The technology of VPA""; ""Determining the user's intention""; ""Making an appropriate response""; ""Pandorabots""; ""AIML""; ""Using oob tag to add additional functions""; ""The VPALib library""; ""Creating a Pandorabot""; ""Sample VPAs � Jack, Derek, and Stacy""; ""Alternative approaches""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 9: Taking it Further""

""Developing a more advanced Virtual Personal Assistant""""Summary""; ""Afterword""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9781783285303

1783285303

OCLC:

864382229